The Weekly – #8

This weekend I published 0.0.4 of endpointer which is super exciting; it allows you to combine multiple yaml files using JSON references. Hopefully it should be useful for managing large multi-file openapi specifications.

In and out of code I’ve also spared some time for reading, and this week its been a collection of longer articles (excellent for that long coffee break you’ve been telling yourself to take!)

Our daily content consumption is so frequently based on recommendation engines tweaking and changing what we get shown. A thumbs up and thumbs down can only capture one dimension of our reactions to great or not-so-great content.

This article has surfaced in a few places recently and is an eye opening study of gender bias. The article dives into promotion vs prevention questioning and is an fascinating reminder of the impact of bias and phrasing.

I love this article as it touches on the concept of Minimum Loveable Products (MLP) – an idea I’ve been a huge fan of for a while. I struggle with the concept of MVP in current-day product development as it so frequently translates to intentionally broken customer experiences to ‘learn’. Best that you read more…

This is a fascinating journey in design awareness from RedBubble. It’s recommendation to fix tooling to better represent the intent of the designer is a really interesting one, and one I think we can learn from in our technical implementation of systems as well.

Today I’m super excited to share I’ll be speaking at GitHub Constellation’s ‘Explore’ event on October 25th. “Minimum Viable Rainbow” will shed a little light on how pride.codes came to be and what we learned from launching open source rainbows in code. Perhaps I’ll see you there?